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Good luck... whatever your opinion on this is I can guarantee you that most people will not be using the new name.

buzzdenver 3y ago
Do you still call is Mt Rosalie, since that was its original name? 20 years from now it'll be an obscure trivia question. Just like most people already call the neighborhood that used to be Stapleton, named after a KKK member, as Central Park. And it was renamed a couple of years ago, and Central Park is a dumb name...
mcphage 3y ago
People who have been using the old name for years? Yeah, probably—but then I still call sports stadiums by the names I first learned them as, as well as gas stations. Heck, a few years back I had to deliberately force myself to stop using the term "open apple key". But people who learn it for the first time will learn the new name, and official maps (etc) will all use the new name, and that's probably good enough.
- tivert 3y ago
  The Sears Tower will always be the Sears Tower to me, no matter who the current owner is and who paid them for naming "rights." > But people who learn it for the first time will learn the new name, and official maps (etc) will all use the new name, and that's probably good enough. Not necessarily. If the community isn't invested in the name change, the old name can remain current and persist through natural transmission. In fact, the old name could become established as a way to separate the locals from tourists who learned a name from some outsider source like an official map. Another factor is how good the new name is. "Mount Blue Sky" is actually pretty good, as far as these imposed renamings go. A lot of the time they're totally impractical mouthfuls (e.g. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/federal-government-renames-minnesota-lake-to-manidoons-zaagaigan-zhaawanong/ https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/federal-government-re...) that put contemporary English's orthographic sloppiness on full display.

Do you still call is Mt Rosalie, since that was its original name? 20 years from now it'll be an obscure trivia question. Just like most people already call the neighborhood that used to be Stapleton, named after a KKK member, as Central Park. And it was renamed a couple of years ago, and Central Park is a dumb name...

mcphage 3y ago

People who have been using the old name for years? Yeah, probably—but then I still call sports stadiums by the names I first learned them as, as well as gas stations. Heck, a few years back I had to deliberately force myself to stop using the term "open apple key". But people who learn it for the first time will learn the new name, and official maps (etc) will all use the new name, and that's probably good enough.

tivert 3y ago
The Sears Tower will always be the Sears Tower to me, no matter who the current owner is and who paid them for naming "rights." > But people who learn it for the first time will learn the new name, and official maps (etc) will all use the new name, and that's probably good enough. Not necessarily. If the community isn't invested in the name change, the old name can remain current and persist through natural transmission. In fact, the old name could become established as a way to separate the locals from tourists who learned a name from some outsider source like an official map. Another factor is how good the new name is. "Mount Blue Sky" is actually pretty good, as far as these imposed renamings go. A lot of the time they're totally impractical mouthfuls (e.g. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/federal-government-renames-minnesota-lake-to-manidoons-zaagaigan-zhaawanong/ https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/federal-government-re...) that put contemporary English's orthographic sloppiness on full display.